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Riverworld War |
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Edited by
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George H. Scheetz |
Subtitled: The
Suppressed Fiction of Philip José Farmer.
2 stories:
- "Jesus on Mars"
[condensed version of the novel Jesus
on Mars],
- "Riverworld
War" [five left out chapters of The
Magic Labyrinth].
The second story is part of the Riverworld
series.
DEDICATION: "For George and Kathy Scheetz". |
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COVER
TEXT:
None, but instead some information from the Author's Preface.
"Jesus on Mars" was sold to Isaac
Asmov's Science Fiction
Magazine but never published in its pages: "...failure to
communicate has marked the Jesus
On Mars-Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine deal. My
agent was to be the liaison between Scithers and Pinnacle. But he
failed to notify Pinnacle about the magazine publication. As a result,
Pinnacle issued the book before the abridged version was scheduled to
appear. Scithers had to cancel its publication in the magazine."
Farmer had to cut in the manuscript of the fourth Riverworld novel,
because it had become too long: "I made great slashes in the
novel. Result: the reader of the fourth and final book in the series
will know that many of the characters more or less prominent in the
first three books had died during the battle. But the reader won't know
how they died or why. The chapters excised from Design but included
in the book at hand relate the fate of these people. They also tell how
Burton managed to get to the ammunition storage room in the Not For Hire during
the battle."
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